Chad’s Continued Electric Stimulation Notes 2015-17 and Onward

Chad’s Continued Electric Stimulation Notes 2015-17 and Onward

This is a continuation of the “Notes From My Year Year of Electric Muscle Stimulation” which is becoming one of my more popular blog posts. Those notes were what I wrote down as I did EMS (electric muscle stimulation) for...

Electric Stimulation for RSD / CRPS (Chad’s Review)

Electric Stimulation for RSD / CRPS (Chad’s Review)

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), causalgia, and a host of other names is kind of like headaches and neuropathy were for me. In that I didn’t initially have any particular interest in the...

Pain in the Butt, Sacroiliac Pain as Tendinopathy?

Pain in the Butt, Sacroiliac Pain as Tendinopathy?

I recently finished the 3rd edition Stuart McGill’s “Low Back Disorders.” I’ve followed his work since reading edition 2 and bulk of my back pain treatments are based on, or consistent with it and his more recent research. For those...

Mental & Physical Effects of Drumming (Chad’s Review)

Mental & Physical Effects of Drumming (Chad’s Review)

About a year ago I got the idea I was going to buy a djembe. I can’t even remember for sure why but I think I was reading Eliade’s book on Shamanism, which round about came after reading neuroscientist Sam...

Exercise and Neuropathy (Chad’s Review)

Exercise and Neuropathy (Chad’s Review)

I’m intending to make this blog a review of pertinent research on exercise and neuropathy and making comments with regards to my thoughts and how it affects my current treatment programs for neuropathy. I’ll be updating and adding studies to...

Coracoidopathy Diagnosis Confirmed in New Study

Coracoidopathy Diagnosis Confirmed in New Study

This paper just came out in June this year confirming what I call coracoidopathy (tendinopathy of the short head of the biceps and coracobrachialis muscles where they attach at the coracoid process). They called it “coracoid syndrome,” which I might...

Type 2 Diabetes Curable! But Mosley’s New Book has HUGE Typo

Type 2 Diabetes Curable! But Mosley’s New Book has HUGE Typo

I was over at a buddy’s house when he opened some mail, and in it was Michael Mosley’s new book The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet. I was like, “Oh that’s the 5:2 guy, he’s cool he’s into intermittent fasting.” At...

Coracoid Impingement Syndrome and Coracoidopathy

Coracoid Impingement Syndrome and Coracoidopathy

This blog is probably only of interest to professionals since coracoid impingement syndrome (CIS) is thought to be a very rare, though important, shoulder pathology. CIS describes when the coracoid process is thought to physically impinge upon the lesser tuberosity...

Bench Press Shoulder Pain, Probably Coracoidopathy

Bench Press Shoulder Pain, Probably Coracoidopathy

I’ve done my share of bench presses, mostly back in my bodybuilder years before I got involved in Olympic weightlifting. Back then (well before I was a physical therapist) if someone in the gym had shoulder pain with bench press,...

Coracoidopathy: The Missing Link in Shoulder Pain

Coracoidopathy: The Missing Link in Shoulder Pain

To cut to the chase, coracoidopathy is an unbeknownst but common cause of shoulder pain. My preliminary data gathered from my shoulder pain referrals suggest it is present in up to 85% of people with shoulder pain. It is the...

My Continued Electric Stimulation Headache Data

My Continued Electric Stimulation Headache Data

The following is my headache results with electric muscle stimulation (EMS) and builds on a prior blog where I did the same thing but with somewhat different electrode placement, and slightly different parameters programmed into my EMS machines. Treatment...

Are Dietitians Wrong About Dinner Time?

Are Dietitians Wrong About Dinner Time?

OK, are dietitians wrong about dinner time? I’m about to reinterpret some 20 year old research, which really got me thinking. Though I might be mistaken, I think the experts are wrong, and the research is on my side. Such...

I needed a break from fasting papers and, while I’m a big, BIG fan of EMS, and to a substantially lesser extent TENS, I am underwhelmed by high “kilohertz-frequency” alternating type currents as is commonly used in Russian stimulation for...

Placebo Effect: You Probably Shouldn’t Know This, But…

Placebo Effect: You Probably Shouldn’t Know This, But…

This is one of those papers where the abstract doesn’t quite cut it, and the whole paper was a fascinating read. I got thinking about it after reading my favorite paper on acupuncture, “Acupuncture is Theatrical Placebo” and I have since...

Intermittent Fasting and Circadian Rhythms

Intermittent Fasting and Circadian Rhythms

I had a blog idea comparing various cleansing/detoxification schemes with intermittent fasting, with the gist being that there are some similarities. Both probably make you feel better for largely the same reasons, but that fasting is better and free. With...

This study was more interesting in its entirety than its abstract. I thought the home exercises given were beyond banal, but they still turned out best in the long term. Cortisone injected into tendons was yet again shown to be...

Intermittent Fasting Improves Heart Attack Survival, A LOT!

Intermittent Fasting Improves Heart Attack Survival, A LOT!

Anyone familiar with my blog, or me, will know that I have a pretty fair obsession with intermittent fasting for what are becoming more reasons than I can easily count. So what is particularly interesting about this paper, contrary to...

Dry Needling Collapses Lung, on Video

Dry Needling Collapses Lung, on Video

I had a physical therapist stop by my office last week and try and sell me on dry needling. I said heard all about dry needling and that I thought that like the force, it can have a strong influence...

My Favorite Intermittent Fasting Educational Videos

My Favorite Intermittent Fasting Educational Videos

For those of you who don’t like to read, this blog about intermittent fasting educational videos is for you. I have been doing intermittent fasting for 6 months now, and I have a number of comments to add since making...

Low Level Laser Doesn’t Work for Tendinitis Either

Low Level Laser Doesn’t Work for Tendinitis Either

Clinical effectiveness of low-level laser therapy as an adjunct to eccentric exercise for the treatment of Achilles' tendinopathy: a randomized controlled trial. Tumilty S, McDonough S, Hurley DA, Baxter GD. From the Abstract OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of low-level...

Low Back Pain & Reverse Ergonomics: Fit the Person to the Job?

Low Back Pain & Reverse Ergonomics: Fit the Person to the Job?

Evolving ergonomics? McGill SM. Ergonomics. 2009 Jan;52(1):80-6. Abstract The theme developed in this position paper follows the current evolution of injury prevention in the backs of workers. Job change or 'fitting the task to the person' has come far, but...